Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Wed, 7 Nov 2001 19:14:37 -0200 (BRST) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: PROPOSAL: dot-proc interface [was: /proc stuff] |
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On Wed, 7 Nov 2001, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > It eats CPU, it's error-prone, and all in all it's just "wrong". > > > > How much of your CPU time is spent parsing /proc files? > > 30% of 486 if you run top... That's way too much and top is unusable > on slower machines. > "Not fast enough for showing processes" sounds wery wrong.
Is this time actually spent parsing ascii, or is it procfs walking all the page tables of all processes ? ;)
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